Conscious in the Current

A weeklong wilderness river trip for connection, restoration, and wellness

August 19 - August 24

A Wellness and Restoration Trip

Join us on the Main Salmon with Hughes River Expeditions for a beautiful week to connect, restore, and sink into a conscious relationship with yourself and nature.

Conscious in the Current is the first ever Hughes River Expeditions Restorative Wellness trip on the Main Salmon. This will be a curated week of intentional connection, community and conscious practices that you will be able to participate in as much or as little feels right. Instead of bringing outside facilitators, this week on the water is led and fostered by guides who have a deep love and intimacy for this particular space.

The experienced guides at Hughes will be providing optional opportunities and invitations such as: contemplative nature-based walks and inquiries, facilitated mindfulness practices, lightly guided movements, and daily opportunities to share collective experiences in community.

This is a perfect trip for conservationists, therapists, space-holders, storytellers and creatives to connect more deeply with themselves in nature. Anyone finding themselves needing a “reset” in their lives, lightly guided by experienced and compassionate hands.

The guides on this trip have several decades of collective experience, are well-seasoned in this specific canyon and have backgrounds as mindfulness teachers, movement facilitators, therapists, breath workers, and deeply lovable human beings. They are so excited to spend intentional time with you in this space.

To our knowledge, no other week-long river experience like this exists—don't miss out.

A Bit About Our Partner...

Hughes River Expeditions

Hughes River Expeditions, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer in accordance with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the United States Department of the Interior. HRE is permitted by the following agencies to outfit on the respective National Forests and National Public Lands: Salmon-Challis National Forest – Middle Fork of the Salmon and Main Salmon rivers. Cottonwood Field Office, Bureau of Land Management – Lower Salmon River. Bitterroot National Forest – Selway River.

HRE is an officially licensed outfitter by the Idaho Outfitters and Guides Licensing Board (3405 and 21104); State of Montana, Board of Outfitters (OUT-OUT- LIC-40799). 6400 Caras Lane, Lolo, MT 59847 (PO Box 218) - (406) 540-4450 - info@hughesriver.com

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Rafting the Main Salmon River

The Main Salmon River is a breathtaking, first-class Class III-IV whitewater river with an abundance of indigenous history, pristine flora and fauna, and breathtaking canyon views. Nestled in the present-day Frank Church Wilderness, there are few places in the world to be both as comfortable and remote. You’re guaranteed soothing views of mighty Ponderosa pines and sage brush forests as well as an incredible variety of wildlife from majestic bighorn sheep to otters and kingfishers.

Along the way are healing waters of natural hot springs, vivid pictographs, and remnants of traditional indigenous life. Each night we create a home in a mixture of large beaches, grassy benches, orchards and remnants of homesteads.

Connection in Nature

The guides on this trip have several decades of collective experience, are well-seasoned and invested in relationship with this specific canyon. The guides who co-created this trip have thoughtfully curated opportunities to connect deeply with specific and unique areas of the Main Salmon river corridor.

Traveling down this free-flowing Wild and Scenic River, you will have the opportunity to feel:

The expansiveness of a natural, erosive watershed system
The potent life-death-life cycle of affected wildfire areas
The beauty and reverence of old-growth Ponderosa Pine, Mountain Mahogany, and Ancient Pacific Yew Trees
The human and more than human history that has loved these canyons for centuries

Each new landscape will be paired with a thoughtful and unique invitation to deepen into a conscious inquiry.

Meet Your Guides

Dagny Deutchman

Dagny is a sleep researcher, mindfulness teacher, dreamworker, and wilderness rites of passage guide who has over 15 years of backcountry experience and loves nothing more than facilitating spaces of kindness and curiosity. Her passion is bringing an element of art and movement into contemplative practice and finds no place she’d rather be than her backyard in central Idaho. The is the founder and owner of The Art of Rest.

Joey Filamanowitz

Joey is a deeply kind soul who brings a genuine brightness to the spaces he inhabits. One of his favorite things about river guiding is the opportunity to be with the many metaphors and organic lessons that a river can provide. That opportunity is made even more sweet by sharing it with friends and strangers in a beautiful, remote setting. Through guiding and personal passions, he has developed a connection to nature that spans from cultivating biomes in his kitchen, to enjoying downtown parks, and on to exploring wilderness areas such as the Frank Church. He is passionate that nature is something that is separate from us, and should be accessible to us

at all times.